IVANTI ENVIRONMENT MANAGER POLICY – QUICK START GUIDE

Ivanti Environment
Manager Policy®

Quick Start Guide

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Contents
Quick Start Guide ..........................................................................................................3
About Environment Manager Policy ..............................................................................3Feature Summary ..........................................................................................................4
Preparing for Installation................................................................................................5Installing the Environment Manager Policy Console .....................................................6Installing the User Workspace Manager Licensing Console .........................................9Installing the Environment Manager Policy Agent.......................................................12
Licensing Environment Manager Policy ......................................................................16Environment Manager Console ...................................................................................17
Getting Started with Environment Manager Policy......................................................18

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Quick Start Guide
Environment Manager Policy

Ivanti® Environment Manager Policy, powered by
AppSense, simplifies IT management, makes users
more productive, and improves user experience byenabling IT to control every aspect of the desktop
at a highly granular, contextual level. For
organizations using virtual desktops and sessions
with Office 365, Environment Manager Policy
eliminates user-acceptance and performanceissues related to Outlook and OneDrive.

About Environment Manager Policy
Ivanti Environment Manager Policy is employed to set up a corporate desktop environment and specifies what users have access to,
how they access it, and what they can do with it.
It can be used to replace complex logon scripts and hundreds of Group Policy Objects (GPOs) to simplify IT administration and speed
user logon times.
Thanks to an intuitive graphical user interface, the need to understand complex scripting techniques to configure logon actions is nolonger required, allowing less-experienced IT admins to manage this task easily and successfully. What’s more, unlike with logon
scripts or GPO settings, the solution’s multi-threaded engine allows logon actions to be applied simultaneously, rather than sequentially,resulting in much faster user logon times.
Actions applied unnecessarily at logon can also be made to apply on-demand, only as needed within the user session, removing theburden on the logon process and making the user experience more efficient.
By using Ivanti Environment Manager Policy, IT administrators can:

▪ Provide responsive, personalized, compliant, and contextual desktops▪ Deliver a fast, full-featured Office 365 experience on virtual desktops▪ Eliminate slow logons▪ Eradicate complex logon scripts▪ Replace Group Policy on desktops▪ Enable Windows 10 migrations

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Feature Summary
This section provides a summary of the key features of Environment Manager Policy.

Flexible Event Triggers
Configure policy settings to apply when certain triggers occur. This enables more flexible control of user desktops under different
platform, operating-system, and application-delivery mechanisms.
Computer Event Triggers
Computer actions can be configured to apply when the computer starts up or shuts down, or when a system process is started orstopped.
User Event Triggers
User actions can be configured to apply when:▪ A user logs on or off▪ An application is started or stopped▪ A network is connected or disconnected▪ A session is disconnected or reconnected▪ A session is locked or unlocked
Actions
Actions allow configuration to be applied based on the occurrence of triggers. These include, yet are not limited to, Registry, File &Folder, Drives & Printers, Group Policy, and custom actions.

Conditions
Conditions allow rules to be configured to ensure actions are triggered only under specific contexts. These include, yet are not limited
to, Registry, File & Folder, Directory Membership, User, Computer, Session & Client, and custom conditions.

Lockdown
Lockdown removes unwanted functionality such as buttons, tree view options, and menu items from Windows operating systemcomponents and applications. This allows IT admins to strip out unnecessary functionality from third-party software, either for security
reasons or to reduce the complexity of the end-user experience.

Self-Healing
Self-healing ensures critical files, registry settings, processes, or services remain unaltered in the event of malicious or accidental
change.

Ivanti Policy Templates
Create a library of configuration snippets by exporting templates from a full configuration to a specified location. These policy templates
can then be imported later into another configuration.

Group Policy support
Leverage Windows ADM/ADMx files (administrative templates) to create and apply user and system policies. Existing Windows Group
Policy objects can be referenced, bringing the management of existing policies into the Environment Manager console to complement
existing Active Directory environments or extend settings to computers outside of Active Directory control.

Auditing
The auditing facility allows IT admins to specify which events are included in the audit and the location of the related audit logs.

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Configuration Profiler
The Configuration Profiler enables IT to generate summary reports of Environment Manager Policy configuration settings, enabling
analysis and troubleshooting of complex configurations. Reports can be set up to provide information about configured actions,conditions, and triggers relating to specific users or groups, published applications, or devices.

Preparing for Installation
Supported Operating Systems and Technologies
The supported Operating System and Technologies are detailed in the Maintained Platforms Matrices available through the IvantiSupport Portal.

System Requirements
The table below contains the minimum recommended requirements for running Environment Manager Policy.
Component

Requirement

Environment Manager Policy Agent

See Microsoft system requirements for the specific Windows version
Processor

Minimum speed: 1 GHz (x86) or 1.4 GHz (x64)
Recommended speed: 2 GHz or faster
Minimum # of CPUs: 1
Recommended # of CPUs: 2 or greater
Refer to Windows editions documentation on support for more than 4 CPUs

Environment Manager Policy Console
MemoryMinimum: 2 GB RAM
Recommended: 4GB RAM or greater
Refer to Windows editions documentation on support for more than 4GB RAM(x86) and 32 GB RAM (x64)

Available Disk Space

Minimum: 1 GB

Minimum Resolution1024 x 768 pixels

Required Components
The following components are included in the Environment Manager Policy download package:▪ Microsoft Windows Installer 5.0▪ Windows PowerShell 3.0 or above▪ Microsoft .NET Framework 4.6.1▪ Microsoft Visual C++ 2015 Redistributable package - Update 3 (14.0.24123.0) or later▪ XML Lite 1.0.1018.0

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Installing the Environment Manager Policy ConsoleLaunch the Command Prompt as an administrator.
Navigate to the EMPO installation media folder.

Use the following syntax to install the EnvironmentManagerConsole64.msi file and its associated patch file,
EnvironmentManagerConsole64.msp:

Msiexec.exe /I <agentbasefile.msi> PATCH=”C:\fullpath\agentpatchfile.msp”

Msiexec.exe will begin to prepare the installation of the MSI file and its associated patch:

The Ivanti Environment Manager Console installer will launch:

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Select ‘Next’ to continue with the installation.

Accept the license agreement and select ‘Next’.

Choose the desired installation folder and select ‘Next’.

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Select ‘Policy’ only when asked which area(s) the console will manage. Click ‘Next’.

Select ‘Install’ to begin the installation.

The installation begins.

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IVANTI ENVIRONMENT MANAGER POLICY – QUICK START GUIDEThe installation completes. Select ‘Finish’.

Installing the User Workspace Manager Licensing Console
Launch Command Prompt as an Administrator and navigate to the EMPO installation media folder.

Install the Ivanti UWM Licensing Console from the command line using the following syntax:

Msiexec.exe /I LicensingConsole64.msi

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Msiexec.exe will begin to prepare the installation of the MSI file and its associated patch:

The Ivanti UWM Licensing Console installer will launch:

Select ‘Next’ to continue with the installation.

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Accept the license agreement and select ‘Next’.

Choose the desired installation folder and select ‘Next’.

Select ‘Install’ to begin the installation.

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IVANTI ENVIRONMENT MANAGER POLICY – QUICK START GUIDEThe installation begins.

The installation completes. Select ‘Finish’.

Installing the Environment Manager Policy AgentThe Environment Manager Policy Agent is supplied as a .MSI file and can therefore be installed or distributed to endpoint devices inseveral ways:▪ Local, standalone installation by double-clicking the .MSI file
▪ Local, standalone installation via the command prompt▪ Distributed installation via proprietary deployment systems such as Ivanti Endpoint Manager, Microsoft System Center
Configuration Manager, or other third-party solutions▪ Distributed installation via Microsoft Active Directory
For simplification and ease of use, this section of the Quick Start Guide explains how to install the Environment Manager Policy Agent
locally via the command prompt.
For further information on the other available installation methods, please refer to the Ivanti Environment Manager Help System.
Launch Command Prompt as an Administrator and navigate to the EMPO installation media folder.

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Use the following syntax to install the EnvironmentManagerAgent64.msi file and its associated patch file,
EnvironmentManagerAgent64.msp:

Msiexec.exe /I <agentbasefile.msi> PATCH=”C:\fullpath\agentpatchfile.msp”

Msiexec.exe will begin to prepare the installation of the MSI file and its associated patch:

The Ivanti Environment Manager Agent installer will launch:

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Select ‘Next’ to continue.

Accept the license agreement and Select ‘Next’.

Choose the desired installation folder and select ‘Next’.

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Select ‘Install’ to begin the installation.

The installation begins.

The installation completes. Select ‘Finish’.

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You will be prompted to reboot the endpoint device onto which the Ivanti Environment Manager Agent has been installed:

Select ‘Yes’ to reboot or ‘No’ to manually reboot later.

Licensing Environment Manager Policy
From the Windows Start Menu, launch the Ivanti User Workspace Manager Licensing Console:

Select ‘Import’ from the menu items.
Browse to the folder that contains the supplied license key:

Highlight the desired license file and select ‘Open’.
The license will be added to the UWM Licensing Console:

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Close the UWM Licensing Console using the ‘x’ in the top, right-hand corner of the dialog.

Environment Manager Console

Quick Access Toolbar
The Quick Access Toolbar contains the following functions:▪ New▪ Open Configuration▪ Save▪ Save and Unlock
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IVANTI ENVIRONMENT MANAGER POLICY – QUICK START GUIDE▪ Save As▪ Undo and Redo – Erase and recommit actions▪ Expand All and Collapse All – expand or collapse multiple items in the console▪ Back and Forward – Cycle through the views you have visited in a session
Navigation Pane
The Navigation Pane consists of the navigation tree and is the area for managing nodes within the configuration. A node is just acontainer for Actions and Conditions.

RibbonEnvironment Manager Policy control elements are grouped together logically in ribbons according to their area of functionality.
Each ribbon is accessed by the appropriate tab.

Work Area
The Work Area is the main area for managing the settings in an Environment Manager Policy configuration.

Help
The Environment Manager Policy help system can be accessed as follows:▪ Click the Help button from the Help ribbon – the help system opens at the homepage.
▪ Click the question mark in the top right-hand corner of supporting dialogs – the help system displays context-sensitive help
for that dialog.

▪ Press F1 at any time – the help system displays context-sensitive help for the current area of the console or if not available,
opens at the home page.

Getting Started with Environment Manager Policy
To ease administration of Environment Manager Policy, example Policy configurations are available for download from the IvantiSupport Portal.
In order to use these, simply download the required configuration file, delivered in .aemp format. Double-click on the file and theconfiguration will be loaded automatically into the Environment Manager Policy Console.
From here you can then choose to save the configuration as a live configuration on the computer on which the console is being
used, save the configuration to the Ivanti Management Center for deployment to multiple devices, save the configuration in
Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager, or as just a local configuration file on disk.
For further assistance with Environment Manager Policy configuration, please refer to the Ivanti Environment Manager Help
System.

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